Re: //gs Memory 8 or 16megs?

[marvinmiller@hotmail.com (Marvin Miller)]

Hi Wayne;

Many thanks for the reply! Even with your cautions, I would still like
to obtain and try out a ramKeeper card for my Rom 3 //gs.

I have agreed to purchase a GS-RAM Plus with 6 megs of memory. I'd
love to get another memory card and plug them both into a ram Keeper!!
I know your reasoning against it is logical and practical - but I'd
like to do it anyway! ;-)

What are the chances I can get a ramKeeper for a Rom 03 //gs from you
complete?

If you'd like, maybe we can communicate via email. It's;
marvinmiller@hotmail.com

Thanks;
Marvin Miller


On Tue, 24 Oct 2000 18:51:56 -0700, Wayne Stewart
<waynes@intergate.bc.ca> wrote:

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>Marvin Miller wrote:
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>> Hi Eric;
>>
>> I saw that and it might be just what I need ! I'm looking for more
>> //gs stuff so......
>>
>> The issue I have is finding out what card to buy. My concerns break
>> down like this;
>>
>> [1] I need more memory, preferrably 8 mg's
>>
>> [2] There's a bunch of different Applied Engineering cards out there
>> as well as others. I want the best one naturally! But I do not what
>> the differences are between them.
>>
>> Alltech sells an 8 meg card for 100.00 I'd like to pick it up BUT, if
>> the Applied cards have more features etc than I'd rather go that
>> route.
>
>I'd suggest the Alltech card over an Applied Engineering card for a
>couple of reasons. First you can get it new. It uses common 1mb SIMMs
>so you can get any capacity of card and readily upgrade it.
>Also many of Applied Engineering's memory cards needed the PAL chips
>changed if you wanted to move the card from a ROM 1 to a ROM 3 IIgs.
>Those PALs aren't available now.
>Note that often Apple HS SCSI cards need  DMA turned off with memory
>cards over 4mb.
>
>
>> I understand Applied makes a ramKEEPER. I know not what it does....
>> :-(
>
>A ramkeeper is a card that 2 memory card can be attached to. That memory
>is treated as a single memory card. That memory can be divided via a CDA
>into regular memory(up to 8mb) and a ROMdisk(also up to 8mb).  It came
>with power supply and battery. The idea is to be able to boot quickly off the
>battery backed ROMdisk.
>It too needed a parts change for the different IIgs ROM versions. It also only
>worked correctly with some memory card combinations. I'd suggest against
>using the battery and power supply as there were a number of computer fires
>attributed to this arrangement, I know of a couple personally. I have several
>of them, fun to play around with but really once you have a hard drive it
>becomes a lot less than useful.
>A lot of IIgs users couldn't fit their System folder onto an 8mb ROMdisk.
>
>
>> I'm still trying to build/acquire 'best of breed' components for my
>> soon to arrive //gs. I still lack knowledge to make an informed
>> decision......
>>
>> I'd love to support your site by buying products, I'll also need a
>> accelerator card, but I'm focussing on the RAM card first as I have
>> zip for info on the accelerator card.
>>
>> Thanks for the reply!
>> Marvin Miller
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